Changing partition size on DualOS Tablet

[Chris Kauffman]

Dear Sir. I am having the same issue. I am pretty good with computer stuff, but this a little beyond my comfort zone. If Root was made available, Titanium backup would be the answer, and we would all live in harmony. Hopefully, somebody will come up with an easier root method. I saw the USB partition options, but most are in chinese, need translation, and I am just not comfortable with that. I am with you on the android usage. I like having the windows 10 tablet, but I do not really neeeeeeeeeeeeed it. I would be more likely to ditch the windows partition, but it seems to me for now the android portion in a little sluggish. Hmmmmmm maybe its becasue we only have 4 GB or Rom to work with… lol. I hope we find our answers, if I do I will share with you here.

[ScutMonkey]

You can use the free version of MiniTool Partition Wizard 9 to resize the Windows partition on your tablet which would free up space.  It’s got a GUI front end which is really easy to use.  You just right click on the partition, choose resize, and then move a slider around.  After you have it, you hit apply and it does all the work.

I have very little Android expertise though so I’m not sure what you would use to then expand your Android partition from the free space available.

[Anonymous]

thank you sir!  I was looking for a good partition manager

[mierdatutis mi]

Chris Kauffman wrote:

Dear Sir. I am having the same issue. I am pretty good with computer stuff, but this a little beyond my comfort zone. If Root was made available, Titanium backup would be the answer, and we would all live in harmony. Hopefully, somebody will come up with an easier root method. I saw the USB partition options, but most are in chinese, need translation, and I am just not comfortable with that. I am with you on the android usage. I like having the windows 10 tablet, but I do not really neeeeeeeeeeeeed it. I would be more likely to ditch the windows partition, but it seems to me for now the android portion in a little sluggish. Hmmmmmm maybe its becasue we only have 4 GB or Rom to work with… lol. I hope we find our answers, if I do I will share with you here.

I think every model have his method.
I see these method in x80 plus

X80 PLUS Android OS Only (Solution)

[Eric George Benton]

I want to reduce the size of my android partition and increase windows. Is there a simple way of doing this on my x80 pro?  At the moment there does not seem to be  enough space for the Windows updates.

[Jamie Brahm]

The android partition usually comes first on the disk. And Windows doesn’t like being moved. The only way I found to do this, was to back up the whole disk with macrium free, do a fresh windows install, and then restore the backup of the main windows partition in a different location (drag and drop).

You could probably do the same here. Back up the whole disk. Then go into a windows partition manager, and reduce the android partition, then boot to macrium on a usb, and restore it to the new location (after deleting the old one).

Worst case, you restore again. But that should work.

You can also gain about 1gb from compressing the OS with a commandline. Doesn’t seem to affect performance its a minimal compression. Also installing anything you can, onto micoSD will help save space.

[Jamie Brahm]

Just make sure you use macrium reflect free for the backup – its the only one that works for this type of boot setup. And something like EASUS partition manager should work fine for re-sizing the android partition. Just don’t “move” the windows partition”, that’ll cause errors for some weird reason with the security part of the OS, and give you blue screens on boot.

Instead, restore that same image from the backup, to the new location, and once everything is running, just use disk management to expand the partition to its new size.

ALWAYS have a backup when doing such things. It can go sooooo wrong.

 

[Jamie Brahm]

Oh and if you can get into the bios, extend the boot time. Gives you more time to f7 your way into booting from the USB macrium disk you will have to make before attempting the restore (make that immediately after the backup to usb)

[Jamie Brahm]

To do the reverse and increase the android space, it would be much the same at a guess..Reduce the windows partition size, backup with macriun, make rescue disk for macrium, restore the windows partition to a later part of the disk, and them use a partition manager to extend the android partition.

Not sure how well windows partition managers deal with android partitions though, would be my only uncertainty with both these methods. An android app might be better suited for the android resize.

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